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Wbadmin start backup all drives

For many programs have rights to write data to your hard disk, and some data are not stored in
file or folder type, some users may want to back up their entire hard disk to keep all
information backed up. In Windows Server, you can use Windows Server Backup to manually add all
drives in the backup. However, Windows Backup and Restore (for PC) only allows you to add drives
with a drive letter in a backup except critical volumes. Actually both Windows PC users and
Server users can use Wbadmin utility to backup an entire disk from command line. Although
Microsoft doesn’t provide a wbadmin backup disk full switch, you can use –include: [drive
letter] switch to add all drives in the backup. For the drives without drive letter, you can use
volume GUID when specifying drives.

How to backup an entire disk with Wbadmin?

To use Wbadmin, you need to open an elevated command prompt with administrator privileges. You
can type “CMD” in the search box, right click the top listed results, and click Run as
administrator. Then run the following command:

wbadmin start backup -backuptarget:{
|
} -include:
-allCritical

For example, to create a computer backup including C: drive, D: drive, E: drive, and recovery
partition to a shared folder over NAS, use the following command:

For the recovery partition does not have a drive letter, you must use volume GUID to specify this
drive. You can use “mountvol” command to get the volume GUID information.

If you do not want to be prompted to run the backup, you can add the –quiet switch. To backup an
entire disk containing system reserved partition, C: drive, E: drive, and recovery partition to
an external hard drive (F: drive), use this command:

Running this command, the backup will start right away without prompt. The –vssCopy switch is not
necessary because it makes no difference on the items included in the backup.

If you have too many partitions on one disk that you want to backup, to specify the partitions
one by one, not to mention the hidden partitions, would be cumbersome. In this case, you may
look for a way to use one simple command to backup hard drive from command line.

More efficient way to backup an entire disk from command line

AOMEI Backupper is a Windows backup tool that can be used to create multiple types of backups
including system backup, disk backup, partition
backup, and file backup from command line or graphical user interface. It is available in many
editions, so both PC users and Server users can find it quite convenient as backup solution.

To create disk backup from command line using AOMEI Backupper:

1. Download and install the right version of AOMEI Backupper.
AOMEI Backupper Pro is for PC users and AOMEI Backupper Server for Server users.

2. Run a CMD command prompt as administrator.

3. Input the path of the installation directory of AOMEI Backupper
and press Enter.

For example: AMBackup.exe /b new /t disk /s 0 /s 1 /d “d:\disk” /n “Backup Two Disks” This
command is to backup disk0 and disk1 to D:\disk folder with a task name as Backup Two Disks.

Compared with start backup all drives, AOMEI Backupper is quite efficient for backing up an
entire hard drive. Besides backup and restore, AOMEI Backupper also allows you to clone hard
drive/OS to SSD or another hard drive from command line. Click here to see all the command line parameters of AOMEI
Backupper. Additionally, the intuitive interface of AOMEI Backupper has really made things
regarding backup and restore much easier.